McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an unusually thick veil of smoke moving eastward across much of the Upper Midwest region of the US on 16 September 2012.This thick layer of airborne smoke contributed to a colorful sunset, as seen by the... Read More
As a part of the GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) testing, the satellite provided full-disk images at 30-minute intervals during the day on 14 September 2012. For current GOES satellites, the operational full-disk image interval is 3 hours; the ABI instrument on GOES-R will... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the smoke plumes emanting from a number of large wildfires that were burning in parts of Idaho on 24 August 2012. Note that some of the low-altitude smoke was being channeled southward through valleys... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above) showed the hazy signature of a dense veil of airborne Saharan dust over South Florida and the adjacent offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean on 25 July 2012.... Read More
